Tag: Facebook

Why Facebook can’t move as fast as Google Plus

Zuckerberg needs to walk a fine line. He needs to innovate. But his customers throw very public tizzies when an avatar is shifted, or an icon given a slightly altered hue.
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In Tech: Facebook axes Deals, Google-, Young Women lead social media charge

Meanwhile, Groupon continues to prep for a $750 million IPO scheduled for later this year.
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Facebook caught hiring PR firm to talk smack about Google via “op-eds”

Freedom of the press... or freedom of capitalism run amok?
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Social Media: Have we reached a saturation point?

Perhaps the most revealing finding is that the interest in social networking search appears to be plateauing.
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Facebook and ‘The Dark Knight’ set to battle Netflix

But does the movie rental business fit well with social networking?
Who pur the arond in email?

Still: Facebook for fun, Google for search and email

Eventually I'm convinced email will die, or at least morph. The easiest predictor is the teen set.
A blueprint sketch, circa 2006, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network.

UberMedia – the risk of building a business on Twitter, Facebook

Then there's the connection between UberMedia and Twitter archnemesis, Facebook. Accel Ventures, which is an investor in Facebook, recently funded $17.5 million for UberMedia.
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CNBC’s ‘The Facebook Obsession’ Premiering Thursday, January 6th at 9PM ET/PT

With more than half a billion users around the globe, there are more people on Facebook than there are in the entire United States.